midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men who've laid to many debts

Last evening I had the opportunity to attend “Fire of Anatolia”. The performance was in Dubai for only two nights, and thanks to a good friend, we got to go. It was the first time I had been to a show like this. Solely a dance performance. I did enjoy it, but perhaps more than I would have because I was with a Turkish friend who was able to explain the cultural significance of it. I don’t know why they wouldn’t explain it more. They wouldn’t have even had to do it aloud necessarily. I would have enjoyed a booklet that had a paragraph or two on each of the major numbers, what story they were telling and the significance of the story.
That doesn’t seem so out of the ordinary. While I could appreciate the dancing for what it was. Some more cultural info really would have added to it.

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Also, yesterday afternoon I met with the other people that I am working on the Ethiopia project with. We’re going to start looking for suppliers and funds now, so if you know anyone who supplies playground equipment or anyone who would like to fund the building of a playground at an orphanage in Addis Ababa, or anyone who is a landscape designer… drop me a comment and I’ll give you a call! ; )
I think we’ll be heading over there for the first time in the middle of March, or possibly April. I’m really excited to go. I know it will make it all mean so much more.
I’ll definitely be sharing more about this- and hopefully pictures- along the way! If they ever unblock flickr that is…

Let me tell you ‘bout the way she moves

Someone has been telling me this for ages now…
But I finally realized today that I get all together too excited when I have an opinion that I want to express. And I am definitely too eager, subconsciously I think, to turn a discussion into an argument.
This should be fixed- or I will just keep pissing people off and making myself look silly.

Sorry I didn’t listen sooner.